We're slowly getting used to the idea of not having a Festival this year, but still assembling interesting historical content here roughly every week. This week:

Ireland during the Second World War (aka the Emergency) is definitely a theme we want to explore at a future festival, and here is an interesting article on RTE about food and drink here during the wartime period.

Also from RTE this week, on a very different topic, design in the Decade of Centenaries.

On the subject of the Decade of Centenaries, HistoryHub.ie (based at UCD) reminded us via Twitter to listen to this lecture, given in 2016 by Professor Charles Townshend, on the Complexities of Commemoration.

Festival contributor Dr Richard Butler has just published, with Cork University Press, his book 'Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison: A Political History 1750-1850' which we can highly recommend. Hear his contribution to our first Festival, in 2017, here - his subject was the architecture of Bishop Lucey's churches in Cork.